By:  Sarah Collins

NSK Inc’s own Cathie Briggette received the "Excellence in Business, Ambassador of the Year Award" presented Tuesday evening, July 23rd by President Kelly Thompson Clark at the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce's (CCC) Summer Bash Event at the Kendall Square Marriot.

If you take a look around any office, I guarantee you will see at least one mobile device placed on each employee’s desk. It cannot be denied that as cell phones become more of a necessity people are almost physically connected to their mobile devices. According to one survey in 2013 87% of American adults own a cell phone. Of those adults who are employed, 53% use their own devices for work. Businesses are choosing to embrace the growth of personal devices in the work place and implement BYOD programs for these 3 key reasons:

NSK is excited to announce that by the end of summer we will be offering a new managed private cloud service for businesses. Private clouds are designed to offer the same features of a public cloud system while allowing businesses to have more control over customer data and security. Essentially, the information businesses store on a private cloud is protected behind the company’s firewall.